Result of Tender Offer

RNS Number : 3638B

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

07 October 2020

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION THAT QUALIFIED OR MAY HAVE QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7(1) OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (the United States) OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON WHERE OR TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO RELEASE, PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

7 October 2020. 

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC announces final results of its tender offer for its £400,000,000 3.875 per cent. Notes due 2022

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (the Company ) announces today the final results of its invitation to holders of its £400,000,000 3.875 per cent. Notes due 28 November 2022 (ISIN: XS0859098351) guaranteed by Six Continents Limited and InterContinental Hotels Limited (together, the Guarantors ) (the Notes ) to tender their Notes for purchase by the Company for cash (subject to the satisfaction (without limitation) or waiver of the New Financing Condition on or prior to the Settlement Date (each as defined below)) (the Offer ). 

The Offer was announced on 29 September 2020 and was made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 29 September 2020 (the Tender Offer Memorandum ) prepared by the Company. Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

The Expiration Deadline of the Offer was 4.00p.m. London time on Tuesday, 6 October 2020.

As at the Expiration Deadline, the Company had received valid tenders of £227,470,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes for purchase.

The Company now announces that (subject to the satisfaction (without limitation) or waiver of the New Financing Condition on or prior to the Settlement Date) the Final Acceptance Amount will be £227,470,000 in aggregate nominal amount of outstanding Notes. Accordingly, (subject to the satisfaction (without limitation) or waiver of the New Financing Condition on or prior to the Settlement Date), the Company will accept for purchase all Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Offer with no pro rata scaling.  

Subject to the satisfaction (without limitation) or waiver of the New Financing Condition on or prior to the Settlement Date, the Purchase Price will be 104.40 per cent. of the principal amount of the Notes and the Company will also pay Accrued Interest Payments.

Subject to the satisfaction (without limitation) or waiver of the New Financing Condition on or prior to the Settlement Date, the expected Settlement Date for the Offer is Thursday, 8 October 2020. Following settlement of the Offer, £172,530,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes will remain outstanding.

Barclays Bank PLC (Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 3134 8515; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]) and BofA Securities (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]) are acting as Dealer Managers for the Offer and Lucid Issuer Services Limited (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Owen Morris; Email: [e-mail]) is acting as Tender Agent.

This announcement is released by the Company and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offer described above. For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by Nicolette Henfrey, Company Secretary of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC.

LEI Number: 2138007ZFQYRUSLU3J98

DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum.  No offer or invitation to acquire any securities is being made pursuant to this announcement. The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law.  Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by each of the Company, the Guarantors, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.  

For further information please contact:

Investor Relations:

(Stuart Ford, Rakesh Patel)  [phone]  [phone]

Media Relations:

(Yasmin Diamond, Mark Debenham):   [phone]  [phone]

Notes to Editors:

IHG ^® (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global organisation with a broad portfolio of hotel brands, including Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas ,  Regent Hotels & Resorts , InterContinental ^® Hotels & Resorts , Kimpton ^® Hotels & Restaurants , Hotel Indigo ^® , EVEN ^® Hotels , HUALUXE ^® Hotels and Resorts , Crowne Plaza ^® Hotels & Resorts , voco™ , Holiday Inn ^® Hotels & Resorts   , Holiday Inn Express ^® , Holiday Inn Club Vacations ^® , avid™ hotels , Staybridge Suites ^® , Atwell Suites™ , and Candlewood Suites ^® .

IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns more than 5,900 hotels and approximately 883,000 guest rooms in more than 100 countries, with over 1,900 hotels in its development pipeline. IHG also manages IHG ^® Rewards Club , our global loyalty programme, which has more than 100 million enrolled members.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales. Approximately 400,000 people work across IHG's hotels and corporate offices globally.

Visit www.ihg.com for hotel information and reservations and www.ihgrewardsclub.com for more on IHG Rewards Club. For our latest news, visit: https://www.ihgplc.com/en/news-and-media and follow us on social media at: https://twitter.com/ihgcorporate , www.facebook.com/ihgcorporate and www.linkedin.com/company/intercontinental-hotels-group

 

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